# Airplane seats: fully upright position?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 16, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airplane-seats-fully-upright-position/340246 "2006-01-16T18:11:33Z")\
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> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#):
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> I think the sudden horizontal motion would be enough to spill the coffee.
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> I don’t think I have ever had _scalding_ hot drinks on a plane but I have had tea that was too hot to drink straight away.

Most trays are designed to not move at all - horizontally or otherwise - when the seat it’s connected to is moved. However, I have been on planes where this was not the case, though I’d be hard-pressed to remember what type of aircraft they were.

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